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Women and the Needle: Part 3 – Artists

Women and the Needle – Part 2: Working women

Women and the Needle – Part 1: Ladies’ work

Wild swimming in the Thames – Georgian style

No justice: The death of Isabella Young at Herrington, County Durham

A visit to St Pancras Old Church: Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir John Soane and Edward Carpue

Mike Leigh’s ‘Peterloo’: a review

Reviews of The Murder of Mary Ashford

A new life in America: Guest post for All Things Georgian

The opening night of the Royal Coburg Theatre, 11 May 1818

Five breeds of dog in the Georgian era

Desperate Measures: Women on Trial for Infanticide in the Early 19th Century

Catherine Andras, model-maker to royalty

5 husband murderers: a guest blog for Mike Rendell

Spa Fields Riots: The raid on Beckwith’s gun shop

1814: Murder or manslaughter? The trial of Mary Ann Adlam

The last days of Mary Ann Burdock

Benjamin Jesty: Pioneer vaccinator

Eliza Ross: The Forgotten Female Burker

Summer scenes from the Georgian era

The Yorkshire schools in court: 1816

1818: The murder of a gamekeeper at Crockingham Corner, Epsom

A voyage to nowhere: On board prison hulks at Woolwich

The trial of John Motherhill for the rape of Catherine Wade: 1786

Suspicious death of a female on Fulham Bridge: 28 September 1817

The eruption of La Soufrière on the West Indian island of St Vincent

Hannah Palmer: Executed with her brother for the murder of his wife (1801)

1814: The death of Lavinia Robinson, the Manchester Ophelia

1819: The rape of Hannah Whitehorn

An altercation in Taunton between Tom Woodforde and Don Whiskerandos

Some early 19th-century prison escapes

18th and early 19th century indoor winter scenes

The Neglected Daughter

The scandalous love triangle of Maria Foote, William Berkeley and Joseph ‘Pea Green’ Hayne

Horace Cotton: The extraordinary Ordinary of Newgate

Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Sophia Edney

Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Betty Rowland

36 cases of fraud committed by women, tried at the Old Bailey 1797 to 1837

Three women hanged for poisoning their husbands in 1836: Harriet Tarver

The Story of Rebecca Hodges: arsonist and would-be assassin

A broadside on Elizabeth Simmonds, who had a lucky escape from the dissecting table

A Q&A on the The Disappearance of Maria Glenn

The bloody career of Maria Theresa Phipoe

The confession of Mary Voce, who inspired George Eliot

Gangs of Market Drayton: Ann Harris

Social climbing: Regency boarding schools

Condemned to death: Charlotte Newman and Mary Ann James

Abduction or elopement? The disappearance of Maria Glenn

George Lowman Tuckett: barrister and detective

The end of Frances Thompson, a dealer in false banknotes

Susannah Holroyd: Serial killer

Ann Hurle’s story: The execution of ‘a young woman of education’

The birth of the pound note and the fate of Sarah Bailey

The hazards of hiring: Melinda Mapson

‘Frenzied despair’: Sarah Pugh murders her daughter

Ann Mead: The life and death of a nursemaid

Pregnant and condemned: Pleading the belly and the jury of matrons

William Hone on the case against Elizabeth Miller, who mistook arsenic for oatmeal

The Norfolk Murders: Catherine Frarey and Frances Billing

The Norfolk murders: Mary Wright

The one that got away: Sarah Chandler escapes the gallows

1805: Mary Morgan: ‘A Provincial Tragedy’

Elizabeth Canning, Princess Caraboo, Maria Glenn: liars and monsters

1816: The consequences of an attack on a Jew in Derby

Child-stripping and child stealing in the Regency

1793: Samuel Taylor Coleridge disappears from Cambridge

The death of Frances Colpitts

The cost of executing Jane Jameson

Sydney Smith to Georgiana Morpeth: Advice concerning low spirits

1817: Margaret Thatcher dies in Soho Square

1810: Annette Paris overdoses on laudanum

John Keate and the Eton riot of 1818

Thomas Picton and Louisa Calderón: ‘Inflict the torture’

1807: The execution of Holloway and Haggerty: tragedy upon tragedy

The death of an orphan chimney sweep in Somers Town

Catch me if you can: The extraordinary career of Charles Price aka The Social Monster

Thomas Cochrane and Kitty Barnes

Dissection in hospitals : Private grief v public good

The extraordinary life and shocking death of Miss Lavinia Walstein

Henry Fielding’s attempted abduction of Sarah Andrew

How girls were meant to behave: Georgian conduct books

1809: The doomed love of John Giles for Augusta Nicholson

The abduction of Frances Harford by the Patriotick Secretary

13 Park Lane

Under Fire: The Blitz Diaries of a Volunteer Ambulance Driver

Out of the Shadows: Essays on 18th and 19th Century Women

On the Wings of Love: Georgian Elopement Stories

The Murder of Mary Ashford

Women and the Gallows 1797-1837

The Disappearance of Maria Glenn